Word: gaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saud's 40-odd sons, got an eagle's-eye view of Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...
...should censors sourly gape...
Today the citizenry thronged the Plaza Murillo, not to gape at the bullet-shattered facade of the Presidential Palace-nor even to stare at the Junta members working inside the smashed windows of the second floor-but to attend High Mass at the Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...
...Seattle this week citizens could troop wonderingly aboard to gape at the shattered mast, twisted guns and clawed hull of the 2,200-ton destroyer Laffey, still-floating proof of Becton's word...
...Keeffe: quasi-mystical, highly polished designs inspired by New Mexican landscapes and still lifes. There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch of blue sky seen through the gape of sun-baked bones, Pelvis III. There also were canvases which seemed to represent nothing whatsoever in nature: skillfully colored symbolic forms that were sure to stir the imaginations of most gallerygoers...